Aureol Insurance Company (AIC) is celebrating its two-decade-old success story in Sierra Leone’s insurance industry since its inception on 1st January 1987. The company is the first indigenous public company in Sierra Leone and stands today as the leading insurance company in offering a wide range of services.When the company was launched its founding fathers[...]

Farmers in Kono, Kailahun and Kenema districts, in the east of the country, will soon receive about 250,000 cashew nut seedlings from Government through the National Farmers’ Association of Sierra Leone (NAFSL) in Kenema city. This was disclosed to this medium by Ahmed Siaka Koroma, the regional secretary of NAFSL at his Kenema office. Mr[...]

Plan-Sierra Leone, an international humanitarian child centred community development organization, has celebrated its 30 years of existence in the northern town of Port Loko. The Port Loko/Western Area programme manager, Mariama Zombo, used the occasion to give a brief background on the organization. She said, “the Sierra Leone Chapter was established in 1976 and for[...]

The rate at which counterfeit pharmaceutical products are flooding the market has become alarming, especially in Sub-Sahara Africa. To combat this global menace the minister of health and sanitation, Abator Thomas, has opened the National Pharmaceutical Quality Control Laboratory (NPQCL) at the Queen Elizabeth II Quay, east of the capital. In his remarks at the[...]

In his relentless strides to promote, protect the health, rights and education of children in Sierra Leone, the national director of the Social Organization Society (SOS), Olatungie Woode, has built a modern SOS village in Makeni, northern Sierra Leone.  Last Saturday, the children of that village joined other SOS children all over the world to[...]

Sierra Leone made history last Saturday when it became the first country in the world to launch the “hunger free campaign”. This campaign, against hunger, is an international campaign which is contributing to a global campaign to target all leaders including the Sierra Leone government. Tennyson Williams, the ActionAid director, said during the launching at[...]

Leading mobile phone company Celtel SL has once again stepped in to assist in the growth of the music industry. Apart from its sponsorship of an annual music awards, Celtel now seems concerned about the future of the industry and how it can be protected. The company is now sponsoring a National Conference put together[...]

Aureol Insurance Company (AIC) last Friday held its Annual General Meeting at the Atlantic Hall, National Stadium hostels in Freetown. In his statement the chairman of the company, Dr Patrick Coker, said he was happy to welcome all to the company’s 20th Annual General Meeting which marked a watershed in the history of the company.[...]

In a bid to ensure that appropriate laboratory infrastructure and programmes are available to support HIV and AIDS surveillance, training activities and quality assurance nationally, the US government has provided $250,000 worth of equipment for the National Reference Laboratory (NRL). In her statement at the handing over ceremony on Saturday at NRL, at Lakka, the[...]

The Supreme Court over the weekend struck off the appeal by the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) against the decision by the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) on the eligibility of Vice President Solomon Berewa to lead the Sierra Leone’s People’s Party (SLPP) to the August polls. The five Supreme Court Judges: Ade Renner-Thomas[...]